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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Cannot Did Failures Get
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I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Chain Dollar Everybody Fax
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My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Makes Meant Friend Noises
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Avoiding Boredom Controlled Creative
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Artificial Artist Comment Condition
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Governs Guilt Inexorable Innocence
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Aim Analogy Art Commentary
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Cannot Curiosity Drawn Indifference
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Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

Already God Faith Something
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Music Boring Production Dates
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Success Measured Accomplish Opposition
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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

Man Learned Secret Drudgery
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Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

Love Enriched Earth Leave
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Creation Criticize Fault Finding
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Baldness Foolish Grief Hair
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Accomplishment Achieved Act Again
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Above Characterized Disenchantment Fate
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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Agents Concern Criminal Criminal Justice
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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

Blessed Servant Brother Sick
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Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

Patient Weaknesses Body Given
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You can show your love to others by not wishing that they should be better Christians.

You Show Love Others
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Find Given God How
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

About Begin Being Construct
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Help Lord Me Pure
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We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.
Should God's Joyful Grace
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

Outlook Estimate Yourself Value
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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Beauty Mystery World Emerges
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With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

With Action Films Great
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I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.

Don't Want Life Explainable
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When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God's command to always rejoice.

Consumed Problems Stressed About
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The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

Real Question How Much
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Prayer Begins Talking God
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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Love Key Mystery Very
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Best Composition Goes Luck
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Courage Fire Genius Set
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Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

Persistence Temporary Setbacks Overshadowed
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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Character Created Day Develop
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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Expect Find Reached Search
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Over Again Boredom Control
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A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

City Dreams Height Length
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The soul is healed by being with children.

Peace Soul Healed By
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Respected Others Great Respect
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Affected Aging Challenges Creates
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Become Festival Inspired Kids
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Course Fascinated God Grew
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Bored Penalty People Success
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
How Not Prison Judged
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I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

Air Anything Around Dance
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Bred Buildings Character Environment
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